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1. nixos-config

   1 35 3,533 9.4 Nix

   General purpose Nix starter template for macOS or NixOS w/ step-by-step instructions (by dustinlyons)

   

2. SaaSHub

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3. chenglab

   2 2 439 9.6 Nix

   a straightforward NixOS setup for my homelab and personal computers

   

   Project mention: NixOS 25.11 Released | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-30

   https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/ is a great guide to Nix with Flakes.

   This was the Nix config that helped it 'click' for me: https://github.com/eh8/chenglab that mentions this guide.

   I based my own config off of it https://github.com/richardgill/nix

4. nix-rice

   3 2 112 3.6 Nix

   A library to functionally define your configuration and theme (rice) with Nix

   

5. dotfiles

   4 1 90 2.9 Nix

   🏠 (by martinbaillie)

   

6. nix

   5 2 49 7.1 Nix

   🍎 Procrastinating never felt this productive. (by pwnwriter)

   

7. emacs

   6 2 42 5.1 Nix

   Nightly custom Emacs builds for macOS Nix environments (by cmacrae)

   

8. nixos

   7 11 20 9.1 Nix

   

9. dotnix

   8 1 20 7.3 Nix

   Personal NixOS & MacOS Configurations (by amz-x)

   

10. tartarus

    9 1 17 7.6 Nix

    the ever-shifting depths of the Underworld are not as once they were... (by jkachmar)

    

11. home

    10 1 8 6.2 Nix

    Versioning $HOME: NixOS configurations, dotfiles, scripts, etc. (by f-f)

    

12. macos

    11 1 5 7.6 Nix

    macOS specific dotfiles (by jrolfs)

    

13. dotfiles

    12 1 4 7.9 Nix

    using nix as iac (by wantguns)

    

    Project mention: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-01

    Infrastructure and backend engineer with a low-level systems background. Last 3 years as the sole or one of very few infra engineers at early-stage startups - owning everything from VPC topology to CI/CD to on-call.

    Currently building cloud infrastructure for a GPU neocloud (H100/H200) from scratch. Before that, sole platform engineer at an autonomous driving research lab, and before that SRE at a YC-backed video comms startup (acquired by a major cloud provider) managing 20+ Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP.

    On the systems side - wrote a custom Karpenter provider in Go for a cloud provider, a C++ initramfs to run Gentoo on bare-metal Android phones with Android userland in LXC (GSoC 2020), and ADAS software on Android using Cap'n Proto + ZeroMQ + LMDB serving 275+ vehicles.

    Also wrote bin (github.com/wantguns/bin), a self-hostable pastebin in Rust with 300 stars. Outside of work I maintain a multi-continent server mesh across Hetzner, Oracle Cloud and bare-metal, all declared in a public Nix flake (source - https://github.com/wantguns/dotfiles, blogs -https://wantguns.dev/tags/yakshaving)

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• NixOS 25.11 Released

  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2025

• Emacs nightly custom builds for macOS Nix environments

  1 project | /r/planetemacs | 11 Oct 2021

• PgtkGcc emacs on MacOS using Nix:

  1 project | /r/emacs | 8 Oct 2021

• NixOS + exwm (Emacs X Window Manager) ?

  2 projects | /r/NixOS | 22 Jun 2021

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